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Posts from May 2006

Emergency Spending Bill, Part IV

Another year, another emergency spending bill to fund the war in Iraq, this one packed with tasty morsels of pork. As usual, it’s going to be rammed through with no real debate, its opponents sputtering ineffectually, then voting for it en masse. But it’s hard to fault the principled senators who, given the choice between [...]


The Lavatory Airlock of Instant Death

In order to get into my building’s restroom, you have to go through two doors. The first leads to an elevator-sized room with a second door on the other end, less than an arms-length away, which leads in turn into the restroom proper. This tiny, useless vestibule is a place of great peril, as the [...]


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